Chapter 268: Contract? No, it's a slave seal.

"City Lord Yun."
Someone couldn't help but say, "We just want to avoid the war. Even if we, as independent cultivators, join the Nine Stars Sect, we will only be cannon fodder."
"That's right! We don't want to be cannon fodder!"
Someone else shouted.
They are naturally not stupid, and they know very well what their fate will be if they join the Jiuxing Tianzong.
"We don't want to join the Nine Stars Sect!"
"Let us go, we don't want to join the Nine Stars Sect, nor will we...